General issues with the ports system

[Jon Drews]

The following are really good articles from FreeBSD Basics:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15
Ports Tricks
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html
portupgrade
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html
Cleaning and Customizing Your Ports
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/18/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Other online resources:
Articles at FreeBSD Diary
http://www.freebsddiary.org/topics.php
Daemon News has good articles too:
http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200406/

Some books that I have found to be helpful:
The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey
http://www.bsdmall.com/cofr.html
BSD Hacks; 100 Industrial-Strength tips for BSD users and administrators
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks/

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 23:35:28 +0200, Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke
<damaker at fillibach.de> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have some questions about the FreeBSD ports system. I did not find
> any further "real" documentation other than the FreeBSD handbook and
> the porters guide, so I guess I'll just ask you guys.